The Verdugo City Tribune I’ve written before about the mythical town called Verdugo City, a place most valley residents are blissfully unaware of. Today, Verdugo City officially is just the Verdugo City Post Office at La Crescenta and Honolulu avenues, with its own zip code (91046) that applies only to the PO boxes in the […]
In recognition of October being National Substance Abuse Prevention Month, the Crescenta Valley Drug and Alcohol Prevention Coalition has collaborated with its strategic partners, The CV Weekly and Red Ribbon Week organizers to deliver a message promoting healthy lifestyles. Sergeant Oscar Rodriguez Glendale Police Department Vice/Narcotics Unit Red Ribbon Week is the oldest and largest […]
The Petting of the Peeves Welcome to my kennel of pet peeves. Please don’t make any sudden moves, and don’t put your hands into the cages. These puppies have been known to bite. Pet Peeve #1: Drivers in the carpool lane who drive slower than the traffic in all the other lanes. Okay, so you […]
CV’s Own Movie Star Being so close to Hollywood, the Crescenta-Cañada area has always been home to stars. From silent great Francis X. Bushman to Victor MacLaglen, Kevin Costner, all the way up to Miley Cyrus – those and others have all lived in the area. But none of them embraced the community and became […]
In recognition of October being National Substance Abuse Prevention Month, the Crescenta Valley Drug and Alcohol Prevention Coalition has collaborated with its strategic partners, The CV Weekly and school club supporters to deliver a message promoting healthy lifestyles. By Lynn Repath-Martos Adult mentor for the CVHS Robotics program How do we know it’s fall […]
Just Wants to Say ‘Thanks’ Thank you to the young man who helped me in the parking lot at Ralphs [on Oct. 9]. When I got to my car he was waiting to alert me to a flat tire, then had me follow him across the street to the gas station, put air in the […]
Good Fences Make … For Exhaustion When we moved into our house, the property came with an aging wooden fence along one side of the backyard. It was dry, splintered and cracked, with missing pieces here and there, knotholes had become portholes, and the entire fence was in general need of serious renovation or […]
Black Work Crews Rejected by CV In the pre-WWII years, racially exclusive Crescenta Valley soundly rejected the establishment of an all-black CCC camp locally not once but twice, in 1935 and again in 1941. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was part of President Roosevelt’s “New Deal,” designed to lift America out of the Great […]
No Oktoberfest Refuse was Found Early Sunday morning I headed to Montrose to do my daily caretaker chores at the Vietnam memorial [at Honolulu and Ocean View]. This was the morning after Oktoberfest. Over 35,000 revelers had been celebrating along Honolulu Avenue just a few hours before. I was not looking forward to what I […]
In recognition of October being Drug Abuse Awareness Month, the Crescenta Valley Drug and Alcohol Prevention Coalition has collaborated with its strategic partners, The CV Weekly and performing arts instructors to deliver a message promoting healthy lifestyles. By Joe ALLEN Father of three I am father of three children, each different in their interests, […]